Micro Focus COBOL™

Fileshare User Guide

MERANT™

Issue 4c
September 1999

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Preface

Fileshare is a client/server system designed to provide more efficient processing of data files that are accessed concurrently, across a network, by a large number of users.

In addition, Fileshare offers features that are not available with the base COBOL file handler including transaction processing and rollforward recovery logging.

Audience

Net Express
Server Express
This user guide is for COBOL programmers who are using Net Express or Server Express to create applications that need to use any of the facilities provided by Fileshare:

Efficient, concurrent access, across a network, to data files
Transaction processing
Rollforward recovery

Mainframe Express
Fileshare is supplied with Mainframe Express solely because it is used by other Mainframe Express components. This guide will assist you if you have any problems setting up these components to use Fileshare. Writing Fileshare applications is not supported in Mainframe Express. You must use Micro Focus Net Express to write such applications. Please see your sales representative for more information about Net Express.

Notation

The following type styles and conventions have been used in this User Guide:

Text that you type is shown like this:
cat script_name | more

The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.
Text in command lines or code examples that is optional is shown in square brackets. In the following example, the expression can specify that the column_name is like the pattern_value, or is not like the pattern_value, depending on the absence or presence of the optional word NOT:
column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value
Sections or paragraphs that apply only to a particular model or operating system are identified by a bold italic heading immediately preceding the paragraph it applies to. For example:
UNIX:
This paragraph only applies on UNIX systems.
Examples in this book are given for both Windows and UNIX systems. Options for Windows commands are prefixed by forward slash (/), while options for UNIX commands are prefixed by a hyphen (-).
If an example uses Windows filename conventions, remember to use UNIX filename conventions on UNIX systems.